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Happy Thursday, Charleston! Where were you when you saw this last night?!
Chances are, you were at one of Charleston’s MANY watch-parties. Share House alley hosted 1,000 last night (after 1,500 revelers cheered on the first-round US game against Paraguay). Tons of bars around town are reporting packed crowds. The vibe around this very likable US team is positively electric.
Next up? Belgium, the team that knocked us out in the 2014 World Cup. Get ready, Charleston, and cheer our men on!
Four days before the Declaration was signed, Charleston was already celebrating. On July 2, 1776, General Charles Lee sat down in the city and wrote to the Continental Congress with the news everyone wanted: the palmetto-log fort on Sullivan's Island had somehow repelled the most powerful navy on earth. The improbable June 28 victory bought the South two more years before the British returned. This July 4 weekend, the tall ship in the harbor is a living reminder of how close the whole thing came to going the other way.
We're cooking up “Brains & Brews,” short expert talks at a local bar. Would you show up?
Dinner Club is back, and we're back on the peninsula.
We're setting the table in Cannonborough/Elliottborough, one of the best dining neighborhoods in the city, on Wednesday, July 15 at 6:45 PM.
Come solo, come curious, and you'll leave with a few new friends and a story you're already texting someone about. We'll start with a gratis appetizer for the table, then let good food and better conversation take it from there. No agenda, no awkward name tags, just a bunch of Charlestonians who like to eat, sharing a table for a night.
Seats are limited, and the last went quickly.
I’ve been using a 3rd-party calendar/event aggregator service for almost as long as I’ve been publishing. I thought having a published calendar that you could sort, filter, and search to your heart’s content would be valuable.
Turns out it doesn’t get much traffic. So as tech bros like to say, I’ll be “sunsetting” it effective today.
I’d LOVE for y’all to continue to submit your events for consideration to be included in our curated Happenings section. See that link below. 👇🏼
Congrats to Gary M. of Daniel Island who guessed correctly in last week’s “Where Are We?” I was on Shem Creek at Tarvin’s Seafood. A great place to get off-the-boat shrimp.
WEATHER
Thursday 91° / 74° ☀️ 💧5%
Friday 91° / 76° ⛅ 💧15%
Saturday 92° / 78° ⛅ 💧15%
Sunday 91° / 78° ⛅ 💧23%
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RESTAURANTS
North Charleston recently landed on Food Network's list of the 10 best barbecue dishes in America. Not downtown. Not the barbecue you're picturing. It's Chinese, it's smoked with Southern technique, and one of the country's top chefs said “Lord have mercy” on camera.
WHERE ARE WE?
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HAPPENINGS
Thursday
North Charleston Farmers Market | 3 - 7 PM | Park Circle Pavilion, North Charleston | The Park Circle Thursday ritual: produce, food trucks, live music, repeat.
Brewery Blast Laser Tag at Holy City Brewing | 5 - 9 PM | Holy City Brewing, North Charleston | Laser tag and cold beer in one arena. Yes, really.
Free Weekly Euchre Meetup - Thursdays @ Edisto River Brewing Co | 6:30 - 8:30 PM | Edisto River Brewing Company, Johns Island | No partner, no RSVP, no problem. Just cards and cheap drinks.
Friday
Independence Celebration Family Fun Event at the Heyward-Washington House | 10 AM - 2 PM | The Heyward-Washington House, Charleston | Hands-on Revolutionary history at a real Declaration signer's home.
Boots on the Roof | 11 - 12 AM | Fiat Lux at Hotel Bennett, Charleston | Cowboy boots, country music, ninth-floor views. Charleston's rooftop goes full honky-tonk.
Party at the Point | 5 - 9 PM | Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina, Mount Pleasant | 26 years of waterfront happy-hour concerts. The Friday tradition continues.
Saturday
America 250: The Grand Smash Finale | 11 - 12 AM | Fiat Lux at Hotel Bennett, Charleston | Ring in America's 250th nine floors up, cocktail in hand.
Folly Beach July 4th Fireworks Celebration | America's 250th Birthday | 9:15 PM | Folly Beach | Fireworks over the Edge of America. Grab a spot early.
City of North Charleston July 4th Festival & Celebration | 5 - 9:30 PM | Riverfront Park, North Charleston | The Lowcountry's biggest fireworks show. Bring a chair, stay late.
Patriots Point 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular | 7 - 10 PM | Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, Charleston | Watch fireworks explode over the harbor from the USS Yorktown.
Sunday
CHS Pour House - Sunday Brunch Farmers Market | 11 AM - 3 PM | James Island, Charleston | Local produce, food trucks, fairy hair, and glitter behind the Pour House.
Reggae Sunday | 6 - 9 PM | The Washout, Folly Beach | Reggae, seafood, and salt air. The perfect Folly Beach Sunday.
Saint Michael's 275th Anniversary Celebration Concert | 6 - 8:30 PM | St Michael's Church, Charleston | One of Charleston's oldest churches turns 275. Celebrate with music.
Room to Choose Again
Charleston has quietly restocked its shelves. After years of buyers fighting over scraps, there are thousands of active listings across the tri-county again, and that changes how this summer feels on the ground. Buyers can walk a few homes before writing an offer, which sounds ordinary until you remember it wasn’t possible a couple of years ago. Prices haven’t cracked. The median is still up over last year, and Mount Pleasant is still Mount Pleasant. But choice is back, and choice rewards the buyer who has done the work to know what they actually want.
Jimmy Farrell
Broker, The Farrell Group
ICYMI
Charleston's own tall ship is firing cannons at Fort Moultrie this weekend, and it's playing for the wrong side.
→ What the Spirit of South Carolina is up to through July 5Twenty Charleston spots where you can still eat well for under $25, from $13 disco fries to a two-meal thali.
→ The cheat sheet for when eating out feels like a splurgeThe James Island seafood shop that supplies 200 restaurants just opened a crudo bar of its own next door.
→ What a level-two sommelier put behind the raw bar on Folly RoadCharleston is opening bakeries faster than it can keep them, and the ones surviving are running brutal math.
→ Why baking bread here is the hardest business in townMargaret Thatcher's former butler flew to Charleston this month to teach the staff how to hand you a pen.
→ What a $15,700-a-night city now expects from its help
LIVE MUSIC
FRI — HIVE MIND at The Charleston Pour House — jam-electronic, Disco Biscuits drummer sitting in. Or C. Shreve The Professor at The Royal American — deep local hip-hop bill.
SAT — JJ Grey & Mofro at The Windjammer — the July 4 beach-stage headliner. Or of Montreal at The Charleston Pour House — indie-pop cult favorites downtown.
SUN — JJ Grey & Mofro at The Windjammer — holiday encore on the sand. Or New Ghost Town at Prohibition — Sunday bluegrass brunch.
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